247 pages : 27 cm

What is essential knowledge for architecture? This frequently posed question targets fundamental principles of design, those basic criteria and priorities through which disciplinary stability is ensured. Yet, insofar as relevance is a core value of architecture, in both theory and practice, the contingent nature of the future guarantees that some forms of knowledge not presently considered essential will eventually become indispensable. With that condition in mind, (Non- ) Essential Knowledge for (New) Architecture collects projects that envision possible futures for architecture through speculations about new disciplinary knowledge. Asking what specific methods, materials, or understandings - tools, ratios, formulas, properties, principles, guidelines, definitions, rules, practices, techniques, reference points, histories and more - not presently considered essential to architecture could, or should, define its future; this new volume of 306090 serves as both a gauge of contemporary concerns and a manual for emergent theory and practice

Includes bibliographical references

(Non- ) essential knowledge for (new) architecture / David L. Hays -- Prognostication : On futurology and architecture: from Vorhersage to Vorausschau / Ludwig Engel and Johannes Gabriel ; The essential Seagram / McLain Clutter ; Savior city / Ellen Hartman -- Reversal : Contextual transformations: the landscape archived> the archive landscape / Gisli Pálsson and Miriam Kelly ; Feral bestiary / Catherine Seavitt Nordenson -- Historical space : What about SPACE? / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen ; House, globe, dome / Jonathan Massey -- Mathematics and form : Form logics: mathematical models and design knowledge / Andrew Witt ; Other projections / Mark Ericson ; Transformations / Robert J. Krawczyk -- Profession : Constructing communication / Irene Hwang ; The future [crossed out] architect / Simone Ferracina -- Visualization : Cinematic-aided design and architecture: sources, methods, and potentials / Amir Soltani ; Data and formulaic expression of dreams, and a day in the life of the mindscaper / Chris Teeter --Thought experiment : Competitions are dead, welcome to proposals / Eduard Sancho Pou ; Architecture and fiction / Nora Wendl -- Empathy : Cold case cathedrals / Jimmy Stamp ; Architecture & trapping / Hermione Spriggs and Greg W. Barton

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